Before that it was ‘big data’. remember that?

every 5 or so years the media needs some new tech to hype up to get people paranoid

Exactly. It will lead to improved automation for industrial processes but it won’t ever be a consumer tech other than improving your siri results.

It won’t replace jobs, anymore than industrial robots in factories replace them.

‘big data’ ‘crypto’ etc.

AI is just the next ‘big thing’ that amounts to nothing. 90% of what anyone says in the press/media is total nonsense. And most AI researchers are downplaying the hype because they know it’s all bullshit and AI will ultimately not be a major change anymore than navigation systems in cars was. It is merely convenience and those that ‘rely’ on it will end up in trouble.

It’s a complementary technology, not a revolution.

People on the board are shit at their jobs because most boards are full of people who don’t ever work at the company. They exterior consultants for the most part. Every business I have worked for, the board was a bunch of wealthy folks who showed up like 1-2x a year for the board meetings, but otherwise had zero idea what anyone did or who anyone was other than the C-suite.

Boston. Indies open at 8am and close at 2pm. Starbucks is open like 6am-9pm. If I want a coffee at 3pm I am stuck with Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts. Indies can’t afford to be open an extra 7 hours where they are doing very little business.

i wish more places served moka, but they don’t.

I don’t understand why people like Starbucks so much. Their coffee is nasty and so is their food. But people are addicted to it. All my relatives have the app and spend like $50+ a week there.

Only reason I ever go is because I’m roadtripping at 6am and it’s the only place open that early. The indie coffee shops don’t open until 8am.

yeah, cats bury their shit. they don’t shit on grass and leave it exposed.

only time cats shit in the open is to prove a point. OP probably pissed off this cat

Microsoft already had this trial back in the 2001.

Exactly. This is like the biggest problem with today’s society. Everyone thinks they are unique and sigificant… you are not.

The dirty erotic fan fic stories you wrote when you were 14 aren’t going to ruin your life if they are found. What will ruin your life is when you find out how little anyone gives a fuck about you.

the open web isn’t as profitable as the walled garden where we can shovel ads and algorithms at unwitting consumers to extract money from them.

Tildes has a single admin who bans anyone they mildly disagree with.

No, i don’t. I don’t have a home lab or a self host. I have a mac laptop at home and nothing else.

my job is at my job. I don’t bring it home.

i taught business ethics for two years. four classes of students about 60 students per class

1/3 of each class cheated and the cheaters always took the ‘there is no morals in business other than profit’ argument. and got caught.

and nothing was ever done, because the administration doesn’t give a fuck about cheating as long as students pay their tuition.

I’m an IT professional but I find most IT communities to be full insufferable people and full of useless and irrelevant information on obscure systems and practices that don’t apply to the average IT job which is sys admining windows/linux/mac.

Would love a community that was chill and not full of people trying to one up one another about how amazing they are or how hardcore their lab is.

did we see this movie already?

It was fun. It was creative. it was free. It was optimistic and people were pretty chill.

Now the internet is all abotu the bottom line. 90% of the traffic/people on it are bots and scams from malicious people trying to make a easy buck by fucking over people.

digital anything was never a thing you owned. it’s a thing you lease.

if you want to own things buy physical copies.

no idea what you are on about the phone. I buy moto phones for like $150 unlocked and they are great.

economic growth baby.

Since the 70s. 50 years ago.

Jimmy Carter make a speech about it. Everyone laughed at him and called him a pussy.